The article contradicts itself. The text says Apple is laying off “a small number of people”. And yet…

“Amazon has laid off 27,000, Meta has laid off 21,000, Microsoft has laid off 10,000, and Google has laid off 10,000 workers in recent months, for comparison.”

Apple’s last “big layoff” was 200 people.

This isn’t comparable to the other tech giants at all. Seems like lazy framing.

I wish I had an extension allowing me to upvote/downvote websites and showing the karma ratio of the website when I navigate to one of their article.

It might not change anything but at least I would feel that I was able to sanction the website for their misleading title.

Lazy journalism. And also lazy framing.

Lazy framing and Ars is, sadly, an extremely common combination.

and "with a focus on workers who are responsible for the "construction and upkeep" of Apple's retail locations and other physical facilities."

Agree that the title is misleading. The article at least has the good grace to correct itself in its subtitle and also quite quickly within the text.

> The article at least has the good grace to correct itself in its subtitle

See that seems especially egregious to me. It’s proof you know the headline is terrible.

(Of course it could be that wasn’t the writer’s original title)

It’s not very common for Apple to lay anyone off, this could’ve been a decent story. Honestly the rest of the article is perfectly fine.

It’s just the framing.

The framing could’ve been something like “this is what it looks like when a company does layoffs right“. After all if you’re laying off a handful of people instead of 20,000 you clearly did a better job at not over-hiring.

Was expecting this, since every other article listed the numbers. Congrats, Apple, on excellent management during this challenging time.

>all within the company's "corporate retail teams," with a focus on workers who are responsible for the "construction and upkeep" of Apple's retail locations and other physical facilities.

Can those even be considered "Tech industry" jobs either?

I'm not sure a single word of the title is accurate besides Apple.

Title generated by gpt:

"Apple Trims Corporate Retail Teams in Cost-Cutting Move, Avoids Massive Layoffs Seen at Big Tech Rivals"

Nice to see that clickbait like this will day in the hands of AI.

If you think that is a headline an LLM would write when instructed to optimize for clicks you are in for a disillusionment...

No, I will ask the LLM to generate titles for me based on the article contents.

And the next step would be to ask the AI if the article is worth reading.

And the next step to have the AI just filter out articles not worth reading.

good on you. everyone else will just ask the LLM to summarize the article.

I believe the Title is typically not written by the author. I would guess the Title is optimized for clicks.

We actually tracked every laid off individual from Google to understand the story behind the layoffs. Here's the summary:

- 747 out of the 2,762 laid-off Googlers have since updated their profiles to indicate a change of employment status in the last 4 months since November 2022.

- Only 56.7% of these people joined a tech company.

- 1/3 of these ex-Googlers joined startups.

See the full analysis here: https://nubela.co/blog/1-in-3-ex-google-employees-in-15-bill...